On July 2, the International Space Station successfully ejected over 170 pounds of garbage (78 kgs) from stations’ commercial Bishop Airlock. This was accomplished through the use of the station’s commercial trash bag and an airlock system, which was designed by Nanoracks. NASA’s Johnson Space Center developed a special bag that can hold all of the … Read more
By Prashant Prabhakar If recent developments are anything to go by, China has been making significant strides in the field of hypersonics and this has been confirmed by top officials at the Pentagon. Apparently, the developments have been compared to Soviet Union’s “Sputnik” breakthrough during the Cold War. Not surprisingly, China doesn’t seem to stop … Read more
The spacewalk was set to be undertaken by Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron, both NASA astronauts. (Representational image: NASA) NASA spacewalk: Debates around space junk are heating up in light of a study on orbital debris and the fact that the International Space Station had to manoeuvre out of the way of a defunct Chinese … Read more
As per NASA, both the orbital debris and spacecraft travel at speeds of about 15,700 mph in low Earth orbit. (Modeling image: IRAS/TU Braunschweig via ESA) Space Junk: If you are at all interested in the activities happening outside the Earth, you would have heard that recently, that a defunct Chinese satellite nearly collided with … Read more
The global space industry was valued at over $400 Billion in 2018 with 80% of that represented by the commercial space sector. (Image: ESA) Led by three 22-year-old founders – Anirudh N Sharma, Rahul Rawat, Tanveer Ahmed – Digantara, Space-tech startup is set to take on the problem of space junk and eliminate the risk … Read more